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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09
To Hirers of Convict Labor.

Bids Will be received until u O'Clock n
June 1st, 1887, for the hire of about eight hun
dTed $500 cODv,cts TO be worked on farms Il
forces of not less than fifty (5O).
Each bid must be accompanied by q bond
signed by the bidder and two or more responsi
bic sureties, in the sum of one thousand dollar
(Sl0C0) for each one hundred (1OO) cOnvicts o.
less proposed to be hired, conditioned that If hi
bid be accepted the bidder will furnish a simila
bond of five thousand dollars ($5, OO) for tht
faithful performance of the contract that MAJ
be awarded to him.
Each bid and bond must he sIselesed t0gethe
In sealed envelope and directed to Jno. 7
Dickinson, -. SecHetaSy Penitentiary Board
Austin, YEsass SThe bids will be opened in tht
preseHc6 otthe public at the Office Of the sal,
secretary in Austin, Texas, at u O'Clock NJ, Juni
1st, 1887.
As there are numerous stipulations and cor
ditians to be complied with In bidding for the
hire OF these conyicts, all Of which IS particu
Iarly set forth In printed circular, parties pur
posing 10 bid are requested TO apply to eitheI
Thos: y. Goree, superintendent of Penitentia-
Ties, huntsville, Tex, or to Jno. T. Dickinson
Secretary Penitentlary Board, Auetin, Tex
Tor copy of this circular, and to the fOrmeI
for any further information, If any should Be
needed after reading the circular.
The board reserves the right 10 reject any AMI
all bids submitted.
WALTER TIPS,
g. Q. DIBRELL,
G.. CROW.
State Penitentiary Board,
JNO. 7. DICKINSON, secretary.
Austin, Texas, April 22nd, 1887.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09
WHAT FORT WORTH GOT.

The committee of Dallas citizens who went
to Texarkana to confer with the officials of the
st Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railway in re-
lation to a line of that road from Sulphur
Springs to Dallas. returned yesterday morning.
W. @. Connor, member Of the committee, in
formed News reporter that the railroad PEG
pie gave the committee to understand that they
have not yet decided on the route of the pro-
jected line, nor would they until the surveys
shall have been finished. In the course Of
about three weeks, though, they would be in
shape to talk business with Dallas. Mr.. ConnOr
says that while the result of the conference
WAS not so satisfactory as the committee had
expected II would be, still there Is no occasion
for encouragement on the part of Dallas. The
right of way and subsidies for this road from
Sulphur Springs to the Dallas county line have
been secured, and the guarantees for same
placed in the hands of the Dallas railroad CON-
mittee, and 1t only remains for Dallas'to do her
part. There seems to be more enthusiasm at
most all points on the line than at Dallas. Mr..
Conner says the Fort Worth committee got
about the same satisfaction the Dallas commit
tee got. In fact, the same talk was given to
both of them Dallas News.
THE GAZETTE is seeking to get this re-
port of Mr.. Connvr and of the Dallas pa
pers in condition in which it will keep.
"The satisfaction that Fort Worth got"
is this: If this city and county will grant
the right of way, the st. Louis, Arkansas
and Texas will be running cars into Fort
Worth by September l from Greenville on
line that runs from twelve to fifteen
miles north of Branchtown, in Dallas
county. It is for Fort Worth, not Mr..
Conner and the Dallas papers, to say
what Fort Worth will get.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09

THE immediate effect of the Interstate
commerce law seems to be just opposite
from what it's advocates expected would
result. The difficulty seems to be occa-
putting their own construction on its pro-
visions and instead of reducing short
haul rates and raising the rates for long
hauls in smaller proportion, they have
raised the rates for long hauls to the max
imum and have not reduced the short
haul rates. When the commission begin
to do their duty the law will probably be-
gin to show its claim to live.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09

For the benefit of our natural gas
hunters THE GAZETTE gives place to this
statement, that the most effective
well-shooter is said to be an explo-
sive known as nttro-glycerine paste.
Carefully conducted experiments have
shown that it cracks the rock for greater
distances than liquid nitro lYcerine. A
"shot" recently made with it in gas
well at Richmond, Ind, muddied the
water in all the wells within 800 yards.
It is much cheaper than nitro-glycerine,
and the danger of premature explosions
is not so great.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09
Fort Worth.
RockMall Success.

Owing to a slight wreck this was de-
Worth, which gave US the opportunity to
see that magnificent city. Over ten years
have elapsed since visit to that place in
company, with Rev. VIM. Scales of Dallas
and his brother, Major John S. Scales
of Mansfield, La. Fort Worth
was then just beginning to be
a railroad town, and was noted
chiefly as the place where the "panther
lay down." and where paddock" lived.
Paddock in his Office tnat day told us that
the people were going to build a city
not q town, but a city complete in all its
parts, and to-day Fort Worth stands in
its grandeur monument to the energy,
enterprise and capital Of its go-ahead,
plucky citizens.
Our stay at the Fort was made pleasant
by call of j. W. Roberts and Mr.. Walker
of the Evening Mail, and a charming
bath of artesian water at Swing & Coz
on the square-T. E. Johnson, manager.
Here DR.. Brown invited the rustler to
take a drive with him behind his famous
grey mare, Maud. And for while we
thought in thousands and hundreds of
buildings, new graded roads,
mills, waterWorks, cemeteries and funeral
professions, street railroads, magnificent
residences, new hotels, and the grounds
for future Car shops; $50 artesian wells,
eight public schools, with an average at
tendance of 1850 pupils. Flour mills
that make 22l barrels Of -four day and
all sold in the city. Hotels that rent for
$4,000 year; citizens who own mil
lion acres of land; alfalfa clover whose
second crop is now eight inches high and
a waving sea of green.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09

interests in the city, and, there
fore, all should render proportionate aid
The efforts of this city to secure the road
has rendered it absolutely necessary that
we secure it. The conditions are not IN
reasonable, and there is but one thing to
do. This must be plain to all, and being
plain to all, THE GAZETTE trusts and THE
GAZETTE believes there will be no uu-
necessary delay in accepting the propo.
sitiOn
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09

IT WAS clear cut fight between Fort
Worth and Dallas for the st. Louis, Ar
kansas and Texas Railroad. Dallas sent
q heavy delegation including smart msth-
ematicians that could demonstrate the
short line though circle was around it,
while Fort Worth sent one man, j. Peter
Smith, Esq. But so it happens that the
victory is within our grasp if we shall but
reach out and lay hold on it. Why not
shave Dallas on the north by securing
this road?
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09
Advantageous to All.
Bonham News.

On May Is the Fort Worth GAZETTE
will issue and distribute $4,000 additional
copies, giving q description of FortW orth
and a synopsis of it's business as well as
full page map of the city and its many
railroads and a general description of the
counties tn ough which these roads run.
This is anOble enterprise ofTHE GAZETTE,
but then THE GAZETTE is always getting
up something that is beneficial to the city
of Fort Worth and of advantage to the
whole country. The fact is THE GAZETTE
has more enterprise about 1t than any
newspaper IN the state.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09

IT IS simply out of the question for any other
Texas city to catch up with Houston as center
for railroads We have eleven already, and
can almost smell the smoke of five more
Houston Post. ..,
Consider: There are sections and Sec
tons. The ten outlets from Fort Worth,
traversing country populated by white
people, and producing wheat, oats, rye,
millet, hay, corn, cotton, sheep, horses
and cattle, must offer more to railroad
and city than where running through
country populated to a great extent by
black people, and producing only corn
cotton and sugar.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09

Uses to appellant after paying the debt by
the latter that he would repay him. The
court below instructed the jury right,
but the Jury found contrary to the law,
and the court erred in refusing a new
trial. TIE judgment is reversed and the
cause remRnded.
Nicholas Baumgsrtner vs.. State, from
Gaudelupe; opinion by White, P. j. This
was prosecution by Information based
upon a complaint for aggravated assault.
The complaint puts the date of the COM
mission of the offense at November Is,
1885, whilst the information places it at
November 6, 1885, ten days earlier. This
is fatal variance, and the Judgment is
reversed and the cause remanded.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09

THE Waco Examiner is authority for
the statement that "the metropolis of
Texas will be where the great railroads
center" Let's see: at Dallas, the Mis-
souri, Pacific, the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe, the Texas and Pacific, and the
ever-to-bsremembered "Trunk," and the
Houston and Texas Central, center; at Fort
Worth; the Missouri Pacific, the Houston
and Texas Central, the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe, the Texas and Pacific, the
Fort Worth and Denver, and the Fort
Worth and Rio Grande, now center. If
our people will secure the st. Louis,
Arkansas and Texas we will have seven
great corporations centering their interest
here to four at Dallas, the "Trunk" being
only cripple. Dallas has no corpora
ton which Fort Worth has not, except
the "Trunk," while Fort Worth, with the
st. Louis, Arkansas and Texas, would
have three that Dallas has not.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09
BUT ONE THING TO DO

THE GAZETTE would urge upon the
people of Fort Worth to-day that which
was urged yesterday: the prompt accept
ance of the proposition of the st. Louis,
Arkansas and Texas Railroad Company
This city has said it wants the road; if
entered into contest for the road; it is
needless for THE GAZETTE to point out
the damaging effect of a failure to COM
ply with the conditions fixed by the road,
for such must be apparent to every man.
One man cannot fulfill these conditions,
nor two, nor half dozen. The benefit
to the city of securing the road
will be to all proportionste to their
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09

ARTEsIAN wells are all the rage in the state.
The railroads are beginning an artesian well at
Denton and other artesian wells are going
down at other points, in which Waco seems to
be behind the times in search for artesian
water supply. The water is unquestiOnably
here for the digging, and there is plenty of
capital to dig with, and Waco people are not
Ioath to use their capital, which makes the
apathy in this respect all the more singular and
unaccoantable. 81 Waco Examiner.
Fort Worth in this, as in railroad build
ing, has been beacon on hill to all
Texas towns. Railroads pay and artesian
wells pay. No city in the state has such
grand, pure water supply as Fort
Worth. To Waco, THE GAZETTE COM
mends the artesian well; Fort Worth
has more than a hundred of them.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09

IT LOOKS as the st. Louis, Arkansas and
Texas Railroad proposes to give Dallas spur.
If this is the intention of the road it is notified
at this time that it does not know the temper
of the Dallas people, They are not of the spur
kind. They want the road, but want no substi-
tute.-rDallas Times
Yes, 1t looks that way, neighbor; it
does, indeed, look that way. Why don't
you give the "Trunk" line to the
St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas
people and let them give you
q road, say, to Tyler? The company
could then build ga spur" to the north
from Dallas and connect with the main
line to Fort Worth. 1t is better to be q
"spur" center than no center at all.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09
A Black List

Of diseases follows an unhealthy con
3diti6n of the liver, one of the most i'm
.pertant organs of the body. Impure
blood, bronchitis, asthma, mslSf1aI dis
EASES, consumption, sick. headache, dis
taases OF the s&in, kIdneys and. heart-sl
jsnay kB traceQ to faulty aetfone or torpid
sty qk, the AV$r. No othsF -knogp p epa
sratasE so6aJtdlY and thsoughlYTJstt6fe
g tiisoFdere6 liver as DR.. Pierce IS Colder
Medical Discovery" It is pleasant tt
the taste, mild but sure in it's action, anC
8 gift TO suffering humanity from one o.
the most successful physicians OF the age
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09
Rates Of Advertising Furnished on Application.

Rates Of Advertising Furnished on Application.
RenittGssces By draft, poStofTce money oTd<s- or
q registered letter, at TiskoJ office,
Correspondence Is solicited upon all ne'0s Suo-
tects.
Prompt isCoT1nGtiOn Of eUeHts and ge1Cs happen
Igs Of general interest solicited, and 1Ci be prop
eFly compensated
IN Communications intended for qualifications
must be accompanied by the ICTteTS name ana al
dreSs-7tot for pHbticGttoTl-btt as an evidence OF
good faith. ,.--
eTso7al to themselves 10iH please iclose stamp Jo
eply.
Al letters or communications for THE GAZETTE
hetheT ON business OF. for publication should be
addressed to THE GAZETTE, or DEMOCRAT PUB
LISTING Co., Fort Worth, Tea, AND NOT TO
INDIVIDUALS.
III checks, money orders postal notes, etc.,
should be made payable to the DEMOCRAT PUB
LISTING Co.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09
He is q Democrat.
Fairfield Recorder.

We do not know who the political
editor of the Fort Worth GAZETTE is, but
he certainly enunciates some good sense
and sound Democratic doctrine in noting
the fact, that the Dallas conclsve of anti
Prohibitionists which met this week,
composed as it was, of people Of all
politics, selected as delegates outside of
party lines and in no1-political meetings,
was no fit body to announce any political
doctrine to be binding on members OF
any party, and especially Democrats.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09
Cameron.


Special to the Gazette,
CAMERON, TEX, May 8.-While some
small boys were playing around the rail
road reservoir yesterday evening, Claude
the young son of Major William Nc
Greger, accidentally fell into deep water
When nearly drowned he was rescued by
Jimmie Hooks, boy about ten years OF
age, who fearlessly jumped into the water
and saved his playmate.
Night before last Mrs. Hood attempted
to commit suicide with chlorate. She is
nov out of danger. Trouble with hel
husband, from WnOm she was seeking {
divorce, is supposed to be the cause.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09
Proposals for Hav and straw.

HEADQUARTERS DEPT. OF THE MISSOURI,
OFFICE oFTHE CHIEF QUARTERMAsTER,
FORT LEAYENWORTH, KAN, Nav 6, 1851
Sealed proposals, in triplicate, subject TO u
usual conditions, will be received at this ofic
and at the offices of the Post Quartermasters
the post named below, until u O'Clock moo.
central standard time, on Tuesday, June
1887, at which time and places they viii Q
opened In the presence of attending bidder;
Tor furnishing and delivery during the fisCi
year beginning July l, 1887, of hay and straw s
Forts LeavenwOrth and Riley, Kan, and Fol-
Lewis, COL; of hay at Fort Hays, Kan; For.
Gibson, Reno, sill and Supply, I. t.; Fort Ell
OFT, Tex, and Forts Lyon and crawford, Col.
Blank proposals ana printed circulars giyiD.
full Information Will be furnished en- aeRlses
ton to this office or TO thsGUsrtermast ers s
the posts named.
The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the right to rejec
any or alkrf6s, or any part OF any bid. Prefer
eneefEtSen to articles Of domestic pIoduCtiol
and manufacture, conditions of price and gus
ity being equal, and such preference given
articles of American production and manufse
ture produced on the Pacific coast to the exter
Of the consumption required by the public ser
vice there,
Envelopes containing proposals should b!
marked, proposals for = st =" and address,
to the undersigned or to the quartermasters $
the posts named above, JAMES 6ILLISS,
Major and Quartermaster .. S. A., Chief Quar-
termaster.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09
Western Texas.
San Antonio EXPRESS

The people of Western Texas would
do well to give thoughtful consideration
to the letter published Yesterday on how
to prevent drouth. Experience running
through ages has demonstrated the truth
of the theory advanced. Rainfall is al
ways more frequent in densely timbered
countries, and this is changed as the for
ests are cut down. In prairie countries
rain falls mostly along streams frfnged
with trees. We would change the condi-
tons as to the rainfall in Western Texas
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09
Damage Suits Compromised.

Special to the Gazette.
PALESTINE, TEX, May 8.-The Mis-
souri, Pacific Railway Company yesterday
effected compromises in the following
damage suits by employees for injuries re.
ceived in the boiler explosion in the
shops at this place two years ago. The
infant daughter of Engineer II. Roddy,
killed, gets $1,000; the wife OF Machinist
Riggs. killed, $500; James Haley. en-
gineer, permanently injured, $4,000; NJ
A. Goodrich, engineer, permanently in
jured, $4,000; Albert Lang, injured seTi-
ously, $1,000.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09

THERE are aldermen who are afraid of the
present sewerage, holding that without its ex
tension the health of the city may be affected
Yet they will approve system Of waterworks
which must rely on the Trinity river, and the
Trinity river is the sewer of Fort Worth
Give the people Of Dallas pure water.-[ Dallas
Times.
A water train over the Texas and Pa
cifc is the solution. Fort Worth has the
best drinking water in the state, and II
the road will put on the train Fort Worth
can supply you and thus save your people
from disease and death. THE GAZETTE
deems this more feasible scheme than
the laying of pipes between the
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09

ANOTHER Illinois bank cashier has gone to
Canada, taking his wife, besides 100000 of the
banks money. After awhile they will even
move their furniture into the Queens domin-
IONS Austin Statesman.
That northern cashier at least deserves
credit for taking his own wife with him
to Canals. Generally these runaway
cashiers from the north and east not
only take the money of other people, but
a wife or daughter belonging to some
one else.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09
Another Territory Killing.

Special to the Gazette,
FORT SMITH, ARK, May S.-Parties
just in from Towson county, ChoctaW
nation, report the assassination on Mon.
day last of Joe Tushkia. Joe had been
attending court, and left the courthouse
for home on Monday afternoon. Tues
day morning his body was found by the
roadside with five bullets in it. Who his
n1urderers are is not known, but the sup
position is that he was killed because he
was an important witness in murder
caseS pending in court.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09
Strong Stomaclls.
Dallas Times.

The Embree people will be surprised at
the picnic. Dallas has more children to
the square lot than any town on earth.
Now and then one or two look puny from
the bad river water, but as rule their
constitutions are so strong that they can
even stand that mixture of mud and Fort
Worth sewage.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09

THE Philadelphia Record deplores the
lack of harmony among Republican news
papers on the subject of the presidential
candidacy. Sherman made his little tour
south and Blaine had his attack west,
but the results of these strategic moves
have not been so marked as to fix unsn-
unity of choice on either.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09
What Says The Express {?
Corpus Christi Caller.


A Democrat can not be consistent with
Democratic principles and vote, either
directly or indirectly, to sustain high
protective tariff. Yet we have such in
consistency in our ranks, and if an at
tempt be made to turn them out howl as
cends on high that one Democrat should
not sit in Judgment on another.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09

THE honors of earthquake and new
volcanoes are shared by Texas and Ari-
IONA, but neither is uplifted above their
business nor shaken from their resolves
to have cattle on the thousand hills and
to make the waste places fertile fields
The western boom moves on, and these
little disturbances are only evidence Of
pent-up energy seeking an outlet.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09

JEFFERSON DAVIS is now Directing to
General WolseleY's life of Robert E. Lee.
Tecumseh Sherman also objects to it.
The life of Lee speaks for itself, and no
more grandly in any portion of it than in
his sublime silence in defeat. Robert E.
Lee was the grandest development Of the
war between the states.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09

BEFORE the directors of the St. Louis,
Arkansas and Texas Railroad met at Tex
arkana the Dallas papers were saying:
Don't monkey with us-Dallas is a
whale-No road can pass here without
stopping" Now they are singing: "Where
are the hopes we cherished, and where
is the gall we had
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09

two places. We know that Fort
Wayne is piping gas from Eaton,
q distance of forty-eight miles,
and that the Standard Oil Company pipes
oil for long distances, but it does seem
to The GAZETTE that water train would
be preferable,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09

THE road to Greenville will open up
the paralIelogram, one of the very best
sections in all Texas, to & direct connec-
ton with Fort Worth. VIII our people
permit the chance to slip?
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09
Convicts on Canals.

Johnson City Echo.
Would it not be good idea for the
state to utilize convict labor in making
irriglting canals wherever practicable?
1t seems so to the Echo. Lands could
be made saIeable and productive that are
now almost valueless.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-09
The Promised Land.
Vernon Guard.

The boom of the Panhandle of Texas is
coming on as fast as time and rail
road builders can bring it. This boom
will be visible to the naked eye in less
than six months.-Fort Worth GAZETTE.
Correct, again. Aud the main artery
leading from Fort Worth to the Panhan-
die passes through Wilbarger county, and
no man rests his eye upon its soil but
says it is the 'spromised land"